General Restore Considerations

• Restores require a vMotion license and fully licensed ESXi host.

• A backup of a VM with multiple disks succeeds and is cataloged if at least one disk is successfully backed up. When the VM is restored it may not be restored with all the disks present at the time of the backup; only the successfully backed up disks are restored. In this case, a warning message appears in the job log for each missing disk.

• You can restore individual VMDKs. To restore a VM with multiple VMDKs, perform a restore for each VMDK.

• For a VM restore, you can select an ESX server as a restore target. However, for a VMDK restore, select an existing VM as the restore target.

• Agentless VMware Backup does not currently support application-aware backup and recovery; however, it provides application consistent backups. See Application-Consistent Protection. Application-aware backup and recovery is accomplished through the Catalogic DPX Block Data Protection, which requires an agent in the VM to be backed up.